While sleep disorders affect women and men at about the same age – the symptoms have markedly different effects on their lives. New research from the SleepGP clinic in Coolangatta, Australia suggests women are more sensitive to the effects of sleep disorders than men (49% compared to 36.9 % for … Read More
Like to push back bedtime, even though you need to wake up early in the morning? Well, maybe stop doing that. The evidence suggests that it’s ruining your life. A study published in Cognitive Therapy and Research has found that people who both go to bed late and sleep too … Read More
We’ve been over why you need sleep—but what happens when you get not enough, or too much? The results aren’t pretty. According to a new study by the Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, which is published in Sleep, short sleepers (six hours and less) have a higher incidence of … Read More
We write about sleep a lot here at DailyXY (see here, and here, and here, and here, and here), but that’s mainly because sleep has attracted a lot of scientific attention recently. Scientifically speaking, it’s weird that mammals sleep. It makes us vulnerable, we don’t need it to regular our … Read More
Skip a night’s sleep, and you end up hungrier, less coordinated, and anxious—possibly because may be running short on myelin, a type of cell essential to brain function. If the findings of a new study published in the Journal of Neuroscience hold up, part of the mystery of why we … Read More
